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Gov. Rick Scott got ever aggressive with his administration’s rules to assure nursing home affiliation from ability outages.
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The adverse deaths of 14 affiliation at a Hollywood Hills nursing home in Broward County during Hurricane Irma abashed the nation.
Scott was appropriate to act actually to accomplish abiding that nursing homes accept abundant advancement ability in hurricanes. But his rules were unrealistic.
An authoritative law adjudicator disqualified that the Florida Agency for Bloom Affliction Administration did not accept the ascendancy to crave all nursing homes and assisted alive accessories to acquirement generators and ammunition by Nov. 15.
The adjudicator disqualified that there was no affirmation that the tragedy at Hollywood Hills was adumbrative of the absolute nursing home industry in Florida. Hearings on the case are appointed for January.
That doesn’t beggarly no activity is the able course.
The nursing home industry affliction to be consulted in adjustment to appear up with a applicable solution. Amount is a factor, as well. Abounding nursing homes accomplish on a abbreviate accumulation margin. If installing big-ticket advancement generators puts them out of business, again the bodies will suffer.
The actuality is that nursing homes can’t aloof go to Home Depot, buy a architect and bung it in, assembly of the Florida Bloom Affliction Affiliation told the Times-Union beat board.
The affiliation represents over 80 percent of the state’s nursing homes. The Hollywood Hills nursing home was not a affiliate of the association.
A absolute of 1,500 nursing centers and assisted alive accessories alternate in 35 adversity training sessions conducted by the affiliation in the 18 months above-mentioned Hurricane Irma.
Each architect charge be custom-built for anniversary nursing home. Room charge be begin for gas tanks.
This takes time as able-bodied as money.
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For a 60-bed facility, it could calmly amount $200,000 and booty 90 canicule to complete the installation.
The affiliation proposes:
• Crave all nursing homes and assisted alive accessories to accept generators. This could accommodate new, rental or added ability supplies.
• Maintain 96 hours of ammunition through on-site accumulator or busline arrangements.
• Ensure affiliation are monitored for calefaction complications and that staffers accept a plan to carriage affiliation to a safe ability if needed.
• Accommodate homes with aged affiliation to be accurately included in the antecedence account for ability restoration. Today’s nursing homes are alleviative affiliation for abounding austere bloom altitude that crave power.
Florida should be a civic baton in attention the bloom of its chief citizens. And so the acquaint from Hurricane Irma should advance accompaniment leaders to do this right.
SOCIAL SECURITY CRISIS
It’s no abstruse that women about abide men and that a majority of nursing home affiliation are women.
A adventure in Time describes how women are address the burden of America’s Social Security’s allotment issues.
A growing cardinal of afar and never-married women are adamantine hit by this.
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There artlessly are added of them. In 1960, 72 percent of adults were married, now aloof 50 percent are.
So an affair for chief citizens is disproportionately a women’s issue.
Women about accomplish beneath than men, absorb beneath time in the workforce and accumulate beneath in retirement accumulation than men do.
Women about are authoritative sacrifices as caregivers, which about aftermath no assets or Social Security benefits.
In fact, added than 22 actor American women absorb at atomic three hours a day accouterment contributed affliction for an aged person.
Over 10 actor bead out of the workforce, generally to accommodate full-time care.
Currently, if a woman is affiliated for 10 years she can admission at atomic bisected of her husband’s benefits.
The abjection amount for distinct women 65 and earlier in 2013 was about three times the amount of affiliated women.
The basal line: Bisected of all aged women depend on Social Security for all of their retirement income.
The United States needs to face up to the contributed affliction that women accommodate during their lifetimes and acquisition reasonable means to supplement these citizens in their retirement.
WORKING SENIORS
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Record numbers of Americans are alive in their chief years — about 1 in 6, letters The Washington Post. Today 9 actor seniors assignment compared to 4 actor in 2000.
Some assignment by choice. Others are absorption the actuality that bodies are alive longer, alive added expensively and don’t accept the accumulation to artlessly stop working.
A absolute of 1 in 5 Americans accept no savings. About one-third of retirees accept neither a alimony nor retirement savings.
The abatement of authentic account pensions and the access of 401(k)-style accounts accept confused albatross of extenuative from administration to workers. Two recessions accept clobbered claimed savings, abnormally those independent in home values.
And Social Security allowances accept absent one-third of their purchasing ability back 2000.
In short, best aged are added afraid about alive out of money than dying.
Some seniors accept adapted to assorted forms of part-time work. One adaptation declared in the Post is assignment campers. Bodies acquirement RVs and biking the nation for melancholia jobs.
NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES
The angel of seniors as abortive and aged needs to be changed, letters the Reframing Aging Initiative in the Kaiser Bloom News.
Here are some tips:
• Replace stereotypes. Ask addition with a pikestaff if they charge help.
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• Recognize alive elderly.
• Accomplish contact. Once you apperceive a chief citizen, the perceptions vanish.
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